It’s still a controversy. Do you see each other before your wedding ceremony? Honestly, most of our clients ARE seeing each other, about 70%. We find it’s usually the groom that doesn’t want to see his bride before the wedding. Go figure. There is a lot of pro’s and con’s to this and we’ve talked […]
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Had a great conversation with Laura Kirtley about her last week before the wedding. Of course, there are a zillion more things to do before your big day, but time did not allow. Hope you enjoy. Click here for the video. plan on!
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Recently had some questions and comments from people, so thought I would just put this out there. Prepare yourself for #realtalk Five wedding myths debunked and why they suck: You need to spend 3 months salary on the engagement ring. Who made this up? A jeweler, probably. Instead why not discuss the rings with your betrothed
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Had a great TV segment yesterday with Laura Kirtley (she’s getting married 11/16/13 up north). So these last few months it’s been The-Laura-Kirtley-Wedding-Planning-Show. HA! The hot question that came up was how to manage your escort cards vs host/place cards for your guests with assigned seating. Escort Cards: tell the guest which table they are
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You are planning a wedding and anticipate a lot of out of town guests. As a host of your wedding, it’s nice to be able to “block rooms” with local hotels so that your guests will: 1. Know where to stay that is convenient to the location of your wedding reception and 2. Take advantage
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Planning a wedding CAN be a daunting task. It’s overwhelming with so many ideas out there. Thanks to the Internet, with wedding blogs and fancy websites you now have MORE concepts that you ever knew to consider. Too much information? You betcha. If you have an unlimited amount of money to spend, then you’ll be
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We’ll finish up our series with this finale… on which wedding traditions you should keep…or ditch? #5 Wedding Tradition: Unity Candle We are not suggestion removing this tradition, but to take a closer look at “wedding unity candles” (we’re talking the pillar candles that you keep after the wedding). Often when they are sold they
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Here we go with part three of the series what wedding traditions should you keep? #3 Wedding Tradition: Garter Approximately fifty percent of our clients are not throwing the garter or bouquet. However, if you wish to keep this time old tradition, consider purchasing only one garter. Most couples will buy “two”; one to throw
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We’re talking about a wedding traditions and which ones we should keep or ditch? #2 Wedding Tradition: Cake Cutting Server Set This is one of our personal favorite “enigma’s” of weddings. Tradition (meaning wedding stores) will encourage you to purchase a silver knife and cake cutting server set, sometimes inscribed with your name and wedding
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Weddings are chock full of traditions. And if you’re planning for the first time you will understand what we are talking about. Tradition is awesome, but as you know, we like to shake things up a bit around here and give you some alternatives. Especially when the wedding tradition can cost you money. This week
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A tradition adapted into most wedding ceremonies is the lighting of the unity candle. This entails usually have two taper candles and one large pillar candle in the middle. The mother’s will light each respective family’s taper candles before the ceremony: the bride’s family on the left and the groom’s family on the right. Then
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It’s a huge concern for brides and grooms on how to secure their wedding gifts at the wedding reception. Short of having a security guard stand by the gift table the whole evening, it’s difficult to have this situation 100% effective. Usually the concern is not the large gift boxes, but the little treasures that
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